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At the NHS R Conference, I suggested to people that they should embrace the idea of package-based development rather than […]

We finally have a tool that is data independent. R allows the scripting of a data science methodology that we […]

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Having recently attended an R meetup in Birmingham, hearing of various user groups and hackathons that take place around certain […]

It’s been a few weeks since the first NHS-R conference was held in Birmingham. I co-presented a couple of workshops […]

This blog was written by Zoe Turner, Senior Information Analyst at Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust. Soon after I started […]

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I went to the NHS-R Community Conference in Birmingham on Tuesday. It was great. Here are three observations about it. […]

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Installation Instructions (Part 1 of 2) Windows Users To Install R: Open an internet browser and go to r-project.org. Click the […]

I was starting to despair at the amount of packages I end up using during the task of transforming, cleaning, […]

This blog is an initial attempt to garner interest in a project to create NHS synthetic datasets in a range […]

There are many occasions when a column of data needs to be created from an already existing column for ease […]